wavywards: September 2014

First Grader

Casey started first grade on August 19th. She loves her teacher, Ms. Comeau and her good friend Hayden is in her class. She is supposed to read to us 20 minutes every night and has just started getting a homework folder, which she has a week to complete. Her reading is impressive, when she is interested in it. She can sound out most words and she more often reads the words instead of reading the picture. She is learning about nouns and verbs right now in class. Her math skills are coming out more this year too...addition, counting by 2's and 5's. She has also come out of her shell socially in the past few months. She is still a little cautious with people, but has more confidence. I volunteered in Casey's class the past two weeks and noticed she raises her hand to answer questions, which did not happen last year. She did get strep the second week of school, but it didn't slow her down too much. She started Daisy Scouts last week and was not shy at all at the first meeting, unlike last year (mom is co-leader again this year).

Garrett is our tall, social little 2 year old. He is outgoing until all attention is on him. In the past few weeks he is saying all kinds of words and sentences. His favorite..."Seriously!" He is a ham big time. He loves to be outside skateboarding, riding his bike, playing basketball, playing catch, kicking the ball. He knows how to push his sister's buttons one minute and then play so nicely with her the next minute. He loves to snuggle. At night he gets so excited to run into Casey's room to give her and whichever parent is in there a kiss and a hug goodnight.

First day of school

School started Tuesday...kids had Friday off for the Pro Cycling tour...we decided to go cheer the cyclists on in the rain and dressed in Super hero attire

Casey cruising around the Frisco bike park

A little pony ride at Keystone Stables

He picked out his own helmet

Alli and Collin came to visit on their way to Oregon...on the gondola on our way up to Breckenridge Fun Park at Peak 8. They rode the Alpine Slide.

Casey's girl night with Hayden and Sophie...nails were painted, smores were eaten

Happy to be on a jeep ride...Peru Creek.

Back in Colorado...End of Summer

We made it back to Colorado at the end of July. 3 weeks before school starts. And so, we made the most of it. We went to the Dillon Farmer's Markets on Fridays, Casey did Gymnastics camp for a week, Garrett raced in his first Strider race at Keystone, we went camping and mountain biking, and went on some jeep rides.